Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy from Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas IIPrinceton University Press, 2006年3月26日 - 491 頁 This new and abridged edition of Scenarios of Power is a concise version of Richard Wortman's award-winning study of Russian monarchy from the seventeenth century until 1917. The author breaks new ground by showing how imperial ceremony and imagery were not simply displays of the majesty of the sovereign and his entourage, but also instruments central to the exercise of absolute power in a multinational empire. In developing this interpretation, Wortman presents vivid descriptions of coronations, funerals, parades, trips through the realm, and historical celebrations and reveals how these ceremonies were constructed or reconstructed to fit the political and cultural narratives in the lives and reigns of successive tsars. He describes the upbringing of the heirs as well as their roles in these narratives and relates their experiences to the persistence of absolute monarchy in Russia long after its demise in Europe. |
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... EUROPEAN MYTH CHAPTER ONE Signs of Empire CHAPTER TWO Peter the Great vii ix xi 1 7 9 21 CHAPTER THREE Olympian Scenarios 40 CHAPTER FOUR The Education of Princes and the Dilemma of Neoclassicism 73 CHAPTER FIVE The Emperor Paul I 85 ...
... European Literature and History , Columbia University State Archive of the Russian Revolution , Moscow Moskovskie Vedomosti Novoe Vremia Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii ( Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire ) ...
... Europe . This pattern has befuddled efforts to categorize the Russian state under a single cultural rubric , Mongol , Byzan- tine , or European . The devices of identification with foreign sources of power were varied — tales of foreign ...
... European myth . The scenarios presenting the current Western image of the sovereign expressed the dis- tance separating the monarch and his elite from the ruled . Rulers appeared as heroes coming from without , achieving the salvation ...
... European models were diverse , fluid , and open to varied interpretations . Alternative visions of Western monarchy offered the heirs antitheses that might revitalize the monarchy and the myth . In some cases , it was the grandmother or ...